The full text of the Letter to the Editor of the Comment News, sent on 07 October 2007, is below.
............................................. Many people have had letters published, and, advertisements and flyers
distributed, and, apparently phone calls made, relating to what are the
issues, and who people should vote for and against, in this local
government election.
I am a candidate in the local government elections.
I am not going to say in this letter, whether people should vote for me,
or against me in the election, or what are the issues that I consider
important. The electors packs, distributed by the Electoral Commission,
should have contained sufficient information for eligible electors
within the ward, to decide for whom to vote.
I say that a most important thing for all eligible voters to consider,
is that, whatever the outcome of the election and, whatever, whoever is
elected, does in the council, in the future, it is the eligible
electors, who are responsible.
In the last ordinary local government elections in this state, the Lake
Ward of Armadale had the status of having the lowest voter participation
in the state. Only about one in four eligible voters, voted. So,
three-quarters of the eligible voters, appear to have been happy with
the way things were, or, given that neither of the two candidates were
sitting councillors, just couldn't be bothered voting, as whatever
happened at the city council, was regarded by them as having no
importance or effect on them.
So, I say here, not that people should vote for me, or against me, but
that people, in the ward in which I am a candidate, and, in all of the
wards in all of the districts in which this newspaper is distributed,
should make the effort and vote. It is the future of them, and of the
children, and anyone else who cannot vote, that is affected by the
decision to vote or note to vote.
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